Activities

The AccessCat Network and its members organise and participate in different types of activities and actions.

Some activities are addressed to the public—such as awareness-raising activities, demonstrations, showcases, and some training activities—and some actions are carried out within the research groups—such as international missions or standardisation activities.

Awareness-raising Activities

Activities organised by researchers in the network in order to spread their knowledge on accessibility to society. The goal is to raise awareness on how important it is for everyone to have access to communication and information, as well as to offer innovative solutions.

International Missions

Activities abroad through which researchers in the network acquire new abilities and knowledge that will help them transfer their specific research to society.

Standardisation

Researchers in the network participate in drafting regulations, standards, or high-level documents in European and international bodies (ISO, UNE, ITU, CEN, EBU…) to ensure accessibility is taken into account in public policies.

Training

Capsules or training sessions on accessibility to information and communication geared towards companies, institutions, and entities. There is also training for researchers in the network on how to evaluate and transfer research results.

Support for Disruptive Solutions

Contest addressed to researchers in the network to fund and support innovative proposals that find solutions to issues related to accessibility to communication and information.

Demonstrations and Showcases

Activities held by researchers in the network at fairs, congresses and conferences to show the technologies and services created by the research groups.

Future Activities

Training: ‘Industrial Doctorates: what they are and success stories at AccessCat’

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Only for researchers

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    Online

This training session provides an in-depth look at the Industrial Doctorates programme, a three-year doctoral contract within a company, organisation or institution. This contract enables research to be carried out and real solutions to be developed with direct application to the market, while also allowing organisations to integrate into their teams a direct link to innovation and university research.

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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2026

Activity open to the general public

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    Geneva, Switzerland

The AccessCat Network, together with researchers from the TransMedia Catalonia, TraDiLex, TRACTE, Digital Care and LSC Lab research groups, is taking part in WSIS 2026, a high-level event co-organised by several UN agencies (such as the ITU and UNESCO).

AI for Good Global Summit

Activity open to the general public

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    Geneva, Switzerland

The TransMedia Catalonia research group will take part as experts in communicative accessibility in various events of the AI for Good congress, a global forum dedicated to AI with social impact.

ICCHP 2026

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    Brno, Czech Republic

Researchers Estel·la Oncins and Sarah McDonagh, from the TransMedia Catalonia group (UAB), are taking part in this year’s edition of ICCHP, an international conference on digital inclusion and accessibility, with a presentation on user-centred design in artificial intelligence and digital environments.

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Past Activities

AccessCat Training Capsules: The 6x15 of 2026

Programme and registration

Activity open to the general public

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  • Time:
    13:00
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    13:45
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    Virtual

Researchers from the research groups Digital Care, STS-b, TransMedia Catalonia, TraDiLex, LSC Lab, and Grup d’Intel·ligència Artificial i Data Science offer 6 brief 15-minute presentations that address various basic concepts related to accessibility.

Programme and registration

Conference on plain language

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    Online

The Neolcyt research group (UAB) is organising a conference open to the general public that explores plain language from both a research perspective and the social advances of recent years.

+RAIN Film Festival

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Activity open to the general public

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    Barcelona

The +RAIN Film Festival returns, dedicated to films created using artificial intelligence. It is a meeting space for research, creativity and critical thinking that explores the role of AI and the transformation of audiovisual media and digital culture. This year, the TraDiLex research group is taking part with talks on accessibility and AI, as well as the parallel event TRANSLATE+RAIN.

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5th Accessibility Day at MTP

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    10:30
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    13:00
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    Online

The affiliated organisation MTP is holding its fifth Accessibility Day. This year’s webinar focuses on accessibility and regulation. It will feature researcher Afra Pascual (GRIHO), who will speak about evaluating websites using artificial intelligence.